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EPUB books now available at Project Gutenberg

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EPUB Books at PG

It was only a few months ago that Project Gutenberg announced an effort to make mobile all editions of their titles available. This was big news, however, in my eyes the latest eBook format to be released by PG is even bigger news. Project Gutenberg has now made almost all their titles available in the […]

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Project Gutenberg January 2009 Newsletter

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As I’m sure everyone is aware, Obama was inaugurated as the new U.S. President this last week and we now have the Official Transcript of the Inaugural Presidential Address. This can be found in the Gutenberg archives at; www.gutenberg.org/etext/28001 This is now the 44th US Presidential Inaugural Speech and Project Gutenberg has all these compiled […]

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Project Gutenberg December 2008 Newsletter

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Over the last month we officially passed 32,000 original Project Gutenberg eBooks, including all our usual listings and almost 2,500 eBooks at PrePrints. This means the original Project Gutenberg editions now list as many titles as the average U.S. public library. 27,475 + 287 112008 PG General Automated Count 1,723 + 6 111808 PG Australia […]

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Project Gutenberg November 2008 Newsletter

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The big news this month is that Project Gutenberg has officially passed 30,000 original eBooks, bringing the the original Project Gutenberg editions to as many titles as the average U.S. public library. 27,188 (+212) 11/20/08 – PG General Automated Count 1,717 (+ 11) 11/18/08 – PG Australia 542 (+ 12) 10/21/08 – PG Europe 2,461 […]

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PG Canada Newsletter for October 2008

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During October Project Gutenberg Canada published a total of 13 eBooks bringing their total to 190 eBooks, which by the way, took Michael Hart’s Project Gutenberg twenty-three years to achieve! LANGUAGES: 7 titles in English 5 in French 1 in German (the first title in that language!) GENRES 4 history books and monographs 3 novels […]

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter for September 2008

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Project Gutenberg founder, Michael Hart, has now sent out the latest PG newsletter. We are just about to reach a new milestone; We are rapidly approaching 30,000 eBooks in the originating Project Gutenberg collections…we should pass 30,000 before the end of the year. It’s interesting to note that eBooks in the Chinese language are coming […]

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PG Canada Newsletter for September 2008

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Mark from PG Canada sent through his monthly newsletter covering the activities for August 2008. With 12 new eBooks released in August (7 English, 5 French) the total number of PGCA titles now reaches 164! GENRES 6 of the books were novels 3 were children’s books 2 were collections of short stories and novellas 1 […]

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August 2008 – Statistics Update

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Michael Hart has sent out his monthly newsletter for August 2008 and during this last month there have been a few nice milestones from the various PG projects. First up, Greg Newby has provided us with an update on the top languages found at gutenberg.org. Currently there are over 100 languages available in the archives […]

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Le Projet Gutenberg (1971-2008)

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Editors Note: Marie’s essay is available in English [Table] Sommaire Un pari depuis 1971 La méthode adoptée La correction partagée Des collections multilingues Domaine public versus copyright Du passé vers l’avenir Chronologie Statistiques Liens SOMMAIRE Août 1997: 1.000 livres Avril 2002: 5.000 livres Octobre 2003: 10.000 livres Janvier 2005: 15.000 livres Décembre 2006: 20.000 livres […]

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PG Australia celebrates their 7th Birthday!

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In Australia it is now 1st August 2008 and Project Gutenberg Australia is celebrating its seventh birthday! In August 2001 Project Gutenberg Australia posted their first book online, “Animal Farm” by George Orwell – they now have over 1600 titles available for download. Project Gutenbereg (U.S.) only posted their 1,600th title in June 1998 – […]

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Project Gutenberg (1971-2008)

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Marie Lebert has completely rewritten and brought up-to-date her excellent article on the history of Project Gutenberg – Ed Contents Overview A Bet Since 1971 The Method Shared Proofreading Becoming Multingual Public Domain vs. Copyright From the Past to the Future Chronology Stats Links OVERVIEW August 1997: 1,000 books April 2002: 5,000 books October 2003: […]

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